Case Study: a leading construction equipment manufacturer improves paint line efficiency with VIMANA

Construction Equipment Manufacturer Improves Line Efficiency

A leading construction equipment manufacturer, which operates eight manufacturing facilities and sells in over 100 countries, was struggling with a paint line bottleneck that created excess work-in-process inventory and a 5-7 month delay in part production. The company turned to VIMANA and its IoT solutions for smart manufacturing, including Line Performance Management and lean process support, to take a more data-driven approach to evaluating line performance and eliminating waste.

VIMANA implemented real-time analytics by collecting data automatically from the conveyer monorail system, replacing manual stopwatch tracking. The solution identified major bottlenecks, expanded downtime classifications to reveal root causes, and enabled predictive alerts and historical reporting to improve daily decisions and set a 70% line efficiency target. As a result, overall line utilization rose from 30% to 72% in six months, unplanned downtime fell from 11% to 4% in five months, and one paint line cut labor costs by $250,000 in six months while saving 13 indirect labor hours per week.